Daily Medieval

A stannary was an administrative division in the counties of Cornwall and Devon based on tin-mining. The term comes from Middle English sta...

Isabella of Angoulême was born c.1186-88, the only daughter of Count Aymer Taillefer of Angoulême. At a very early age she was betrothed to ...

When King Henry II of England was looking for a wife for his younger son John, he was not as interested in pleasing John as he was in making...

John, son of Henry II, having seized the throne of England after Richard the Lionheart's death, and subsequently having lost several pos...